Description
| Product ID: | 9781914484193 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Ghost In The Garden |
| Subtitle: | in search of Darwin’s lost garden |
| Authors: | Author: Jude Piesse |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Biography: science, technology and medicine, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Memoirs, Social and cultural history, Popular philosophy, History of ideas, Impact of science and technology on society, Evolution, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Nature and the natural world: general interest, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, Popular philosophy, History of ideas, Impact of science & technology on society, Evolution, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), Natural history |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin’s childhood garden at The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of the great scientist’s earliest experiments. It was where, under the tutelage of his green-fingered mother and sisters, and the house’s knowledgeable gardeners, he first examined the reproductive life of flowers, collected birds’ eggs, and began to note down the ideas that would lead to his groundbreaking theory of evolution. In The Ghost in the Garden, Jude Piesse uncovers the lost histories that inspired Darwin’s work and how his legacy, and the legacies of those around him, live on today. |
| Imprint Name: | Scribe Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Scribe Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-10 |